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ape-man

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ape-man (pmn)
n.
1. Any of various extinct primates, such as pithecanthropus, sometimes considered intermediate in evolution between the anthropoid apes and modern humans. Not in scientific usage.
2. A person or creature held to combine characteristics of apes and humans, as:
a. A brawny or brutish man.
b. An archetype of the primitive or instinctual aspect of human nature: "The superman has created the airplane and the radio, the ape-man has got hold of them" (Los Angeles Times).
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Noun1.ape-manape-man - hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings
missing link
primitive, primitive person - a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
2.ape-manape-man - a person assumed to have been raised by apes
feral man, wild man - a person who is not socialized


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With him were a score of his ebon warriors, but far too slow for the ape-man was the progress of these trained and hardened woodsmen.
Tarzan the Untamed by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
The little pink sloth-creature was still blinking at me when my Ape-man reappeared at the aperture of the nearest of these dens, and beckoned me in.
The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context
Tarzan had recently brought his wife and infant son to London to escape the discomforts and dangers of the rainy season upon their vast estate in Uziri--the land of the savage Waziri warriors whose broad African domains the ape-man had once ruled.
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